Don’t use the same password as on your desktop system. Select a different
password on every system.

Step 11 of 24: Home directory encryption:

Don’t encrypt your homw directory on the server. There will be no gain, but much
pain. Your account on the server, will only be used for server-administratoion
and you will never store any documents or data containing personal information
there.

Step 12 of 24: Confirm timezone:

Step 13 of 24: Select how to prepare the hard-drives:

Step 14 of 24: Select the hard-drive for installation:

Step 15 of 24: Confirm partitioning of disk:

Step 16 of 24: Set disk space used:

Step 17 of 24: Create filesystem on disk:

Step 18 of 24: Installation starts …

This step will take about 5 minutes to complete

Step 19 of 24: Set a proxy for internet access:

Step 20 of 24: Security updates installation:

Step 21 of 24: Select “OpenSSH server” for installation.

Don’t select anything else for the moment.

This step will take about 15 minutes, where software packages are downloaded and
installed.

Step 22 of 24: Install boot loader:

Step 23 of 24: Reboot server:

Step 24 of 24: Ubuntu Server Installation is complete, the server is installed
and ready.

You should now be able to connect from your desktop system to your newly
installed Ubuntu Server.

$ ssh <servername>

The authenticity of host 'server (192.0.2.235)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is 1e:34:d6:85:78:17:66:17:ad:62:45:05:fa:18:9d:a7.
No matching host key fingerprint found in DNS.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes

Replace <servername> with the name you gave to your server and type in
yes to confirm, that is indeed a new server.